STANDLEY TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO 1375 



or glabrate; flowers dioecious, white or yellowish white; corolla tube 2.5 cm . 

 long; fruit oval or subglobose, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long. "Huele de noche," "palo de 

 la cruz," "zapotillo" (Oaxaca); "canastilla" (Chiapas); "rosetillo" (Honduras, 

 Guatemala); "Maria Angola" (Colombia); "jicarillo," "crucito," "crucetilla," 

 "caca de mico," "torolillo" (El Salvador). 



The wood is said to be useful for various purposes. The fruit is reported to 

 have emetic properties and to be used in Martinique for stupefying fish. The 

 flowers are sweet-scented. 



5. Randia tetracantha (Cav.) DC. Prodr. 4: 387. 1830. 

 Mussaenda tetracantha Cav. Icon. PL 4: 20. pi. 435. 1799. 

 Sinaloa to Guerrero; type from Acapulco, Guerrero. 



Shrub, 2 to 3 meters high; spines in 4's at the ends of the branchlets; leaves 

 slender-petiolate, ovate or rhombic-ovate, 5 to 11 cm. long, acute or acuminate, 

 puberulent or glabrate beneath; flowers terminal, dioecious (?), solitary or clus- 

 tered; corolla tube 5 cm. long or longer; fruit oval, 2.5 to 4.5 cm. long, j-ellowish, 

 "Arbol de las cruces" (Guerrero). 



6. Randia albonervia T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 257. 1908. 

 Veracruz; type from Corral de las Piedras, near Zacuapan. 



Shrub; branchlets with 2 or 4 spines at apex; leaves petiolate, obovate or 

 ovate, 2 to 5.5 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate, cuneate at base, appressed- 

 pilose beneath; flowers terminal, solitary; corolla densely white-pilose, the tube 

 3 to 4 cm. long. 



7. Randia cinerea (Fernald) Standi. 



Genipa cinerea Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 33: 93. 1897. 



Guerrero and Oaxaca; type from Acapulco, Guerrero. 



Sarmentose shrub; spines in 2's or 4's at the ends of the branchlets; leaves 

 petiolate, oval, 5 to 15 cm. long, acute to rounded at apex, rounded or obtuse at 

 base; flowers dioecious, yellowish white; corolla sericeious; fruit obovoid, 7 cm. 

 long, pilose. 



8. Randia nelsonii Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 34: 574. 1899. 



Puebla and Oaxaca; type collected between Juchitan and Chivela, Oaxaca. 



Shrub; leaves short-petiolate, obovate or obovate-orbicular, obtuse to subretuse, 

 acute at base; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile; corolla sparsely hirtel- 

 lous; fruit subglobose, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, densely short-pilose. 



9. Randia purpusii Greenm. & Thompson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1: 410. 1915. 

 Type from Minas de San Rafael, San Luis Potosi. 



Leaves short-petiolate, obovate or obovate-oblong, 1.5 to 5.5 cm. long, long- 

 attenuate at base; flowers terminal, sessile; corolla sparsely pilose. 



10. Randia watsoni Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 29: 317. 1894. 



Randia tomentosa S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 25: 152. 1890. Not R. to- 

 mentosa Wight & Arn. 1834. 



Randia megacarpa T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 257. 1908. 



Southern Baja California to Nuevo Leon, Morelps, and Michoacan; Chiapas (?); 

 type from Sierra de la Silla, near Monterrey, Nuevo Le6n. 



Shrub or tree, 3 to 5 meters high; leaves short-petiolate, oval or obovate, 2.5 

 to 8.5 cm. long, acute to truncate at base; flowers perfect, white, few at the ends 

 of the branches, sessile; corolla sparsely or densely pilose; fruit globose or oval, 

 6 cm. long or less, short-pilose or glabrate. "Papache" (Sinaloa). 



11. Randia blepharophylla Standi., sp. nov. 



Sinaloa and Tepic; type collected between Aguacate and Dolores, Tepic 

 (Rose 2028; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 300921). 

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